by Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva and Steven Lum In late 2024, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 212 giving the provincial government significant control over municipal bike lanes. The law requires municipalities to ask the province for its approval to install bike lanes if they would remove a lane for other vehicular traffic. The legislation also allows for […]
Why Choose EUC As one of our students, you will be joining a community of changemakers, driven to make positive change for people and the planet. Your studies will extend beyond the classroom to turn your passion for environmental and social justice into action and a future profession. Learn more about why you should become […]
by Peri Dworatzek, MES, PhD student and Partnership Coordinator for the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab Fall 2024 marked the release of the first Ontario municipal Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity dataset. This data presents a one-year snapshot of local levels of consumption [ecological footprint] and natural resource regeneration [biocapacity]. All the data is publicly available […]
Welcome to the February 2025 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and scholarly activities at York University's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our other recent updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Jennifer Korosi, Dieter Cazon, and William Quinton: (Re)building Canada’s first […]
by Jennifer Korosi, Dieter Cazon, William Quinton The Scotty Creek Research Station (SCRS) is a world-class climate research hub located 50 km south of Fort Simpson, in the Dehcho region of the southwest Northwest Territories, Canada. The station has hosted researchers and students since its establishment in 1999, and helped reveal how permafrost thaw is […]
by Adeyemi Olusola, Samuel Ogunjo, and Christiana F. Olusegun SynthesisWe investigated the impacts of six major climate oscillations on river flow at three stations within the Humber catchments (located in Ontario, ON and Newfoundland and Labrador, NL) from 1970 to 2020 using sensitivity and wavelet analyses. Results indicate that the discharge at East Humber River […]
Welcome to the January 2025 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and scholarly activities at York University's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our other recent updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Andrew Reeves: Understanding the economy’s impact on, and relationships with, […]
The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is pleased to welcome Visiting Artist-in-Residence Angie Quick this January. Quick is a visual artist based in London, Ontario and her work is featured at York’s Cross Road Gallery until March. Hosted by Andil Gosine, she is part of Gosine’s Nature’s Wild exhibition series. Known for her evocative, emotionally […]
by Charles Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Sarah Rotz and Tamara Soma For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the October 2023 Hamas attack against Israel. In March 2024, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, […]
